[Gvsig_english] German Umlaut ( ü , ä , ö , ß ) and encoding in gvSIG

[Wolfgang Qual]

Hello Fran,
yes, indeed very useful. The file was created before in ArcView with standard 
encoding (I think Latin1). Only for later usage in our Openlayers-app, UTF-8 
is needed. 
It would be really great, if 
a) this extension could be added to standard gvSIG-package
b) if gvSIG would provide a functionality to set the encoding for a whole 
project.

Best regards,
Wolfgang

Am Montag 20 Oktober 2008 18:15:10 schrieb Francisco José Peñarrubia:
> Hi, Wolfgang.
>
> You can try this extension to read other charsets (in dbf files) than
> Latin1 (the default in gvSIG).
>
> https://gvsig.org/plugins/downloads/extshalom
>
>
> If you find useful the extension, or you have troubles to use it, please
> let me know and I will try to help you.
> The extension is not finished yet, but maybe some day I can find time to
> end it :-) . Anyway, it can be used, the only thing you have to know is
> wich Charset are you using in your dbf file.
>
> Kind regards.
>
> Fran Peñarrubia.
> www.scolab.es
> gvSIG Team.
>
> Wolfgang Qual escribió:
> > Dear list,
> > I have a (little) problem in gvSIG: one of our main tasks is to produce
> > maps for internet usage. As we use UMN Mapserver with openlayers for
> > displaying maps online, attribute data has to be stored in UTF-8
> > (otherwise, umlauts are not displayed correctly in the online maps).
> > Therefore, when using gvSIG, I would need to specify the encoding for
> > attribute data (when creating a new layer or if possible to convert
> > between different encodings). However, I did not (yet) find a possibility
> > to do this. Furthermore, I do not know the encoding used by gvSIG as the
> > default setting. I tried to load UTF-8 coded attribute tables to a gvSIG
> > project, but then, umlauts were not displayed correctly. Would be  r e a
> > l l y  happy for some comments regarding that issue!
> >
> > Best.
> > Wolfgang
>
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